Education

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed heads of Senior High Schools and Senior High Technical Schools not to turn away newly admitted students or deny them boarding accommodation because of the type of trunks, chop boxes or other personal storage containers they bring to school. The directive follows reports received by […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The Council for Legal Education and Training (CLET) has unveiled its new 11-member Board of Members, chaired by Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie. The board brings together senior members of the judiciary, government officials, and academics from some of Ghana’s leading law schools and tertiary institutions. The members are: The composition gives the […]

ELS; MBN360 EDUCATION spokesperson for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Education Policy Committee, Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh Spokesperson for the New Patriotic Party’s Education Policy Committee, Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, has raised concerns about the administrative relationship between the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES), arguing that the distinction between policy formulation […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) spent about GH¢ 600 million in the implementation of its portfolios this year, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the SLTF, Dr Saadija Shiraz, has said. The portfolios included the Students’ Loan, Students Loan Plus, allowance to teacher trainees, no academic fees and free tertiary education […]

ELS; MBN360 EDUCATION Spokesperson for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Education Policy Committee, Dr Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, has called on government to apologise to Ghanaians over what he describes as a lack of coherence and coordination surrounding the proposed introduction of Arabic and Chinese languages into public schools. Addressing the controversy, Dr Tandoh argued that […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Member of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, Communications Team, Ewura Adams Karim, has defended the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy while acknowledging concerns over the impact of the double-track system on the quality of education. Speaking on the ‘Headlines’ segment of the GTV Breakfast Show, Mr. Karim said Free SHS is a right that should be accessible to all eligible Ghanaian students. “Free education is a right. I don’t […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, has announced that the Ghana School Feeding Programme now reaches over 4.527 million schoolchildren daily, disclosing that government has fully cleared all outstanding caterer arrears from 2024 and settled payments for the first and second terms of the 2025-2026 academic year. […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on President John Dramani Mahama to either apologise to Ghanaians or dismiss Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu over the controversy surrounding the reported introduction of Arabic and Chinese into Ghana’s school curriculum. In a statement issued by its Education Sector Policy Committee, the NPP said the […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has outlined a long term plan to end the recurring pressure on the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), with infrastructure expansion at its core. He announced the plan during a courtesy visit to the CSSPS Centre at the GNAT Hall in Accra, where students and parents […]

ELS: MBN360 EDUCATION A Member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Kwame Jantuah, has argued that abolishing Ghana’s Double-Track system is not the solution to the challenges facing Senior High School, SHS, education. Speaking on the ‘Headlines’ segment of the GTV Breakfast Show, Mr. Jantuah said the system was introduced in 2018 as an emergency […]